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Posted: 4/20/2017 1:15:20 PM EDT
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/04/20/0200000000AEN20170420011900315.html

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Air Force dispatched a nuclear sniffer aircraft Thursday to the east of the Korean Peninsula amid the possibility of North Korea's imminent nuclear test, a government source said.

"The WC-135 Constant Phoenix, a special-purpose U.S. plane, made an emergency sortie today over the East Sea," the source said, requesting anonymity.

Its mission is to collect samples from the atmosphere in order to detect and identity a nuclear explosion.
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OST
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:20:05 PM EDT
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Awwww shit
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:22:47 PM EDT
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It's either happened and detected via seismograph, or the Chinese have said its imminent
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:25:52 PM EDT
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This could be worse than y2k!
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:26:44 PM EDT
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Did the Norks scramble Mig-15s to intercept?
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:32:05 PM EDT
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China is going to bomb the shit out of NK...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/us-north-korea-china/

US official: With eye on North Korea, China puts bombers on 'high alert
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If something does go down in NK, I feel like China is setting itself up to make a grab for some of the land.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:42:10 PM EDT
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US official: With eye on North Korea, China puts bombers on 'high alert
If something does go down in NK, I feel like China is setting itself up to make a grab for some of the land.
I think this is very likely. But more in the form of a new puppet government. The Chinese don't want all the problems within NK to be their problems. Better if they can control who does have to deal with it.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:49:11 PM EDT
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I used to work on that jet. I would say that China will probably rain in NK to keep us out.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:51:02 PM EDT
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I don't have a problem with China taking over NK.

Hell, all they'll do is sell it to Walmart
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:53:37 PM EDT
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US official: With eye on North Korea, China puts bombers on 'high alert
If something does go down in NK, I feel like China is setting itself up to make a grab for some of the land.
I think this is very likely. But more in the form of a new puppet government. The Chinese don't want all the problems within NK to be their problems. Better if they can control who does have to deal with it.
One thing is for certain, if China does step into NK bidness, and trade starts to flow into NK to feed those people you probably won't see a cat past Hawaii for decades. Might not be a bad time for Samsung to open a few cat farms in SK. Talking bout profit'n Meow.
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and the Ruskies. The Ruskies are building up troops on its border with NK.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 1:56:38 PM EDT
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I don't have a problem with China taking over NK.

Hell, all they'll do is sell it to Walmart Foxconn
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Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:14:36 PM EDT
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"Chinese air force land-attack, cruise-missile-capable bombers were put "on high alert" on Wednesday... a US defense official told CNN Thursday."

Seems the US source was real careful to indicate that these aren't the bombers the Chinese would use if they intended to challenge the US Navy.  i don't know if that's actually true, but that was the message he wanted to send.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:17:48 PM EDT
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One thing is for certain, if China does step into NK bidness, and trade starts to flow into NK to feed those people you probably won't see a cat past Hawaii for decades. Might not be a bad time for Samsung to open a few cat farms in SK. Talking bout profit'n Meow.
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Hmmm...
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:20:48 PM EDT
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China is going to bomb the shit out of NK...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/us-north-korea-china/

US official: With eye on North Korea, China puts bombers on 'high alert
If something does go down in NK, I feel like China is setting itself up to make a grab for some of the land.
I think this is very likely. But more in the form of a new puppet government. The Chinese don't want all the problems within NK to be their problems. Better if they can control who does have to deal with it.
And them taking over and installing a puppet is probably the best thing for stability.

An iron curtain collapse type reunification would fuck up SK bigly and China running stuff would give the norks a slow intro to the modern world.
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Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:23:33 PM EDT
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is this the plane that those enlists 9S afsc's do?
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Seems the US source was real careful to indicate that these aren't the bombers the Chinese would use if they intended to challenge the US Navy.  i don't know if that's actually true, but that was the message he wanted to send.
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land attack bomber!  HOLY SHIT.  THANK GOD THEY DIDN'T SEND THE BOMBER THAT BOMBS FLYING AIRCRAFT!!!!
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:26:14 PM EDT
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*Dawn's welding hood*

*Applies SPF 999,999*

Checks on JLIST, mask and filters... Just waiting for the show to start.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:26:33 PM EDT
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It's 5 o'clock Charlie! Quick, get the lawn chairs!
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:30:35 PM EDT
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China can make it rain in NK???
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:32:30 PM EDT
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They stole the tech for the Halliburton Weather Machine.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:36:22 PM EDT
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Has nothing to do with land, has to do with China having a stepson that's a bit of a dense fuckwad and they need to bring him in line.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:37:02 PM EDT
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Why would they put bombers on alert to bomb the little turd when all they have to do is shut off the oil spigot, cut off the food freebies, and maybe have the guy whacked?

Did you ever think the bombers are on alert to support him?
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Why would they put bombers on alert to bomb the little turd when all they have to do is shut off the oil spigot, cut off the food freebies, and maybe have the guy whacked?

Did you ever think the bombers are on alert to support him?
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US official: With eye on North Korea, China puts bombers on 'high alert
Why would they put bombers on alert to bomb the little turd when all they have to do is shut off the oil spigot, cut off the food freebies, and maybe have the guy whacked?

Did you ever think the bombers are on alert to support him?
Not a fucking chance china knows how to keep the money flowing and it isn't from having chow young fatass dropping nukes
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:41:50 PM EDT
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Hell, all they'll do is sell it to Walmart
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As long as the AK & PKM parts kits flow, I'm in.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:46:27 PM EDT
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They don't want to own a shitshow.
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Lost. Hard.

Or maybe "rost", dunno.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:49:40 PM EDT
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So the Norks are going to nuke themselves?

ZFG.  Why?  Because I'm in the US, and they haven't shown anything close to the capability of being able to hit us.  

We're being pulled in to this by warmongers and paper tigers.
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:50:29 PM EDT
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Got to hand it to Kim Joung Un he has pissed off everybody.
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US official: With eye on North Korea, China puts bombers on 'high alert
If something does go down in NK, I feel like China is setting itself up to make a grab for some of the land.
1) who cares
2) better than best Korea
3) end result a more stable as is

Top 3 reasons I'm ok with this
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 2:57:18 PM EDT
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A “rein” is a leather strap used to control a horse (or reindeer, if it’s Santa’s season). “Rein” can also be used as a verb meaning “to guide a horse using a strap.” I told the horse to “giddyup” by tugging on the reins. I had to rein him in after he began hurdling fences and garden gnomes.
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So the Norks are going to nuke themselves?

ZFG.  Why?  Because I'm in the US, and they haven't shown anything close to the capability of being able to hit us.  

We're being pulled in to this by warmongers and paper tigers.
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I don't understand the willingness to dismiss the NK threat.

We're talking about a country that has nukes and is willing to use them on SK, Japan, USA etc. Just because they don't have an ICBM to launch a nuke at the US mainland doesn't mean they can't hit Seoul or Tokyo tomorrow.
Let them keep testing unimpeded and they will have their ICBM.

You don't believe little Kim would use a nuke in an act of desperation?

Are you willing to trust that fat fuck and his ally Assad with that kind of weapon?

Yeah... paper tigers...
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I'm not sure they could catch a Constant Pheonix ....
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Well, they do have a BUNCH of people so....
Link Posted: 4/20/2017 3:11:29 PM EDT
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That aircraft didn't sortie over North Korea.
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There is 0 chance that plane flew over DPRK,none. They can detect anomalies in the atmosphere at a considerable range to begin with but no way on Trump's green earth would something like



be risked with such a valuable asset,let alone actually flying over.
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Y3K?
The Norks are not going to be happy until their regime gets replaced by a different set of Chinese selected dictators.
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There is 0 chance that plane flew over DPRK,none. They can detect anomalies in the atmosphere at a considerable range to begin with but no way on Trump's green earth would something like

http://www.willyvictor.com/PhotoGallery/4Jan05.BMP

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It flies through the plume, based upon current weather.
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SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Air Force dispatched a nuclear sniffer aircraft Thursday to the east of the Korean Peninsula amid the possibility of North Korea's imminent nuclear test, a government source said.

"The WC-135 Constant Phoenix, a special-purpose U.S. plane, made an emergency sortie today over the East Sea," the source said, requesting anonymity.

Its mission is to collect samples from the atmosphere in order to detect and identity a nuclear explosion.
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is this why the Chinese are on alet?
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They don't want to own a shitshow.
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If something does go down in NK, I feel like China is setting itself up to make a grab for some of the land.
They don't want to own a shitshow.
Plus the South Koreans may not accept that.
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I'm not sure they could catch a Constant Pheonix ....
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They still operate some MiG-15UTI,they could theoretically catch an C-135 if for some reason that would never,ever happen somebody decided to fly one over North Korea and the only thing the Norks had available was a trainer. The MiG is a tiny bit faster and the ceilings are for all intents and purposes the same. However,this death match is never,ever going to happen.
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I don't understand the willingness to dismiss the NK threat.

We're talking about a country that has nukes and is willing to use them on SK, Japan, USA etc. Just because they don't have an ICBM to launch a nuke at the US mainland doesn't mean they can't hit Seoul or Tokyo tomorrow.
Let them keep testing unimpeded and they will have their ICBM.

You don't believe little Kim would use a nuke in an act of desperation?

Are you willing to trust that fat fuck and his ally Assad with that kind of weapon?

Yeah... paper tigers...
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What incentive does the fat one have to randomly start a nuclear war?  What would the advantage to him be, when he can just keep on being little league prick.  If he tries to use his nuclear toys, his whole country winds up glowing in the dark and he's dead. 

He's a major league asshole, but I'm willing to wait for him to start a shooting war. 
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It flies through the plume, based upon current weather.
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Which means we have reasonable suspicion that they may have fent.
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China tipped the us off about a test being imminent. The plane is on standby.
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The sad thing is that 707 and the Mig-15 were probably built around the same time.
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What incentive does the fat one have to randomly start a nuclear war?  What would the advantage to him be, when he can just keep on being little league prick.  If he tries to use his nuclear toys, his whole country winds up glowing in the dark and he's dead. 

He's a major league asshole, but I'm willing to wait for him to start a shooting war. 
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You're OK with failed/rogue states developing nukes. Roger.
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10+ years and 36 posts.
Do you only comment in threads about the WC-135 Constant Phoenix aircraft  ?
I know we have had a few in the past.  

How are the bathrooms on board are they the standard fare or unique to the aircraft.?
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